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LOIC (from Low Orbit Ion Cannon), used by Anonymous for their DDoSing efforts.

Rogi

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“Anonymous”‘ favorite DDoS tool: L.O.I.C. (Low Orbit Ion Cannon)

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LOIC – Low Orbit Ion Cannon. A network attack application authored by the good folks at 4chan. It was used to attack the Scientology movement (Project Chanology) by a group called Anonymous whose logo is shown in the second picture.

Shwetha Maiya

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LOIC is an open source network attack application, written in C#. LOIC was initially developed by Praetox Technologies, but later it was released into the public domain.
LOIC is an acronym for Low Orbit Ion Cannon, a fictional weapon in the Command & Conquer series of video games.

LOIC was utilized by Project Chanology, an offshoot of the Anonymous group

Low Orbit Ion Cannon is an application developed by 4Chan-affiliated hackers designed to—when used en masse by thousands of anonymous users—launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on websites